{"id":20143,"date":"2022-04-27T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2022-04-27T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:54:34","slug":"delta-air-lines-to-begin-paying-flight-attendants-during-boarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/delta-air-lines-to-begin-paying-flight-attendants-during-boarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines to begin paying flight attendants during boarding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Delta Air Lines, which is facing another shot to unionize its flight attendants, will begin paying cabin crews during boarding, a first for a major U.S. airline.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the airline industry in the United States, hourly payment for flight attendants begins when all the passengers are seated and the plane\u2019s doors shut.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delta said the change will begin on June 2 on all flights.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a memo to flight attendants, Delta\u2019s senior vice president <\/a>of in-flight service, Kristen Manion Taylor, said the new pay \u201cfurther recognizes how important your role is on board to ensuring a welcoming, secure, and on-time beginning to each flight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rate of payment during boarding will be 50% of regular wages.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The change comes as Delta plans to increase the boarding time for single-aisle or \u201cnarrow-body\u201d planes from 35 minutes to 40 minutes, which the airline expects will raise the percentage of flights that depart on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manion Taylor told that after a test last fall, and getting comments from flight attendants, she promised not to impose the new boarding times without providing additional pay for the cabin crews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta<\/a> expressed the new boarding pay would be on top of 4% raises for flight attendants that it declared in March and which take effect later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atlanta-based Delta has successfully campaigned to defeat several attempts to organize its 20,000 flight attendants. The Association of Flight Attendants \u2014 which has been gearing up its latest organizing action at Delta for more than two years but has not yet amassed enough support to force a vote \u2014 took credit for the boarding pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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